Regarding Temporary Foundation

Temporary Foundation

The Temporary Foundation refers to a community that is set up temporarily. However, this is not the first time the name has been used. In 1985 art critic Keiji Nakamura and Michiko Inoue of Gallery 16 set up a funding foundation called the Temporary Foundation to support the Kyoto Independents project, "The Celestial Maiden's Backyard" (Goh Hayashi and Hiroko Nakatsuka). Even though we are carrying the name over for this event, "foundation" no longer signifies temporary funding; instead it refers to the fact we are temporarily establishing a "national domain." An encounter with "Law and Constellations: Turn Coat / Turn Court" is not a reevaluation past events in the history of art in the here and now; we would like to see it as a celebratory work that invites total strangers to enter into an unknown time and space that is nowhere.